Three Area FFA Chapters Are Grant Recipients Three area FFA Chapters are receiving grant money. The grants are from the Missouri FFA Foundation and are Learning by Doing Grants to support ag education. Mexico, Montgomery County R-II and Silex will all be receiving the grants courtesy of donations to the Missouri FFA Foundation from Google,…… Continue Reading
Mexico Man Injured in Accident on South Clark An accident yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon in Mexico sends a Mexico man to an area hospital with moderate injuries. According to Mexico Public Safety, the crash happened on South Clark neat Lakeview at 12:19 when a northbound Ford Ranger driven by 88-year-old Russell Boswell crossed the center line…… Continue Reading
Mexico City Council Meets In Regular Session Property at 1809 West Liberty is officially rezoned from residential to industrial at tonight’s (Monday’s) City Council meeting. The property is owned by Dennis Mommens who plans to eventually build a new facility for Mommens Heating & Cooling. Emery Sapp & Sons was awarded the bid to extend…… Continue Reading
Ribbon Cutting Set For MU Therapy Clinic at Mexico YMCA A ribbon cutting is set for the MU Therapy Clinic inside the Mexico Area Family YMCA. It will be Tuesday, February 21st at Noon followed by tours of the clinic and light refreshments. The clinic is located in the room behind the front desk at…… Continue Reading
Trash Collection to Cost Mexico Residents More Beginning April 1 The Mexico City Council approves a number of resolutions at tonight’s meeting. Residential trash base rates will go up effective April 1st. The base rate will rise roughly 2.5% from $12.95 last year to $13.27 this year with a fuel cost adjusted rate cap of…… Continue Reading
Black History Month Events Underway In Mexico A number of events are going on this month in Mexico for Black History Month. Tomorrow (Saturday), Anointed Lifesaving Ministries is sponsoring the second annual Game Night featuring Jeopardy, UNO and other favorites starting at 4:00 in the afternoon and next Saturday the 18th, it’s a movie night…… Continue Reading
Audrain County Municipal Election April 4th Ballot Preview Voters in Audrain County will have a number of tax and bond issues to decide on during the April 4th election. Voters will be asked to approve a 3% tax on adult use marijuana sales in the county as well as in Mexico, Vandalia, Laddonia, Farber, Martinsburg,…… Continue Reading
Mexico Chamber Awards Dinner Friday Night The Mexico Area Chamber of Commerce dinner honoring the Colonel C.R. Stribling Award winner Todd Yager is coming up Friday evening at the Audrain County 4-H Center. Besides Yager, other honorees include: Educator of the Year goes to Alexandria Stuckenschneider from Hawthorne Elementary, the Soybean Festival picks up the…… Continue Reading
Fire & Foot Pursuit Keep MPSD Busy Sunday Night & Monday Morning Mexico Public Safety is releasing details on two house fires late last night (Sunday) and early this morning (Monday) along with a foot pursuit. The first fire was just before 8:00 last night (Sunday) in the 900 block of East Jackson and was…… Continue Reading
Drug Busts In Mexico Leads to Seizures of Methamphetamine Recent drug busts in Mexico land four Mexicoans in jail. According to the Audrain County Sheriff’s Department, they, the East Central Drug Task Force, Mexico Public Safety and the Missouri State Highway Patrol served two search warrants in the early morning hours Monday at two unrelated…… Continue Reading
